, 1887-02-24
IMHIIGRATION.
lite Way"---The Migratory Habits
Of the Caucasisn Racc.


Of the Caucasian Rscc.
This is an age Of migration, and our
people are migratory people. The Co..
OOO, 900 inhabitants east of the Cascade
range are descended from the race
which have, through all historic time,
been migratory. Anterior to written
history, their ancestors moved from
the table lands OF Asia toward the set
ting sun. From that time to the pres
cnt, they have constantly kept their
faces toward the west. IL was their
hunger for the western horizon that
pcopled and developed Europe, and
this great continent. Our American
population have inherited the migra.
tory impulse from these parent races,
and they are Just as hungry for the
western horizon as their ancestors
were. AT no time in the worlds his
| tory have there been so many people
! hunting for new homes. Everywhere
| in our country, on the worn out soil Of
the Atlantic slope, in the oft-divided
homcsteads of the Mississippi Valley
and in the crowded cities of the Allan
| tic, the Gulf and the Lakes, there are
swarms OF people with muscles dcrcl-
opcd by active competition, and capi-
tai stored up by irugality and economy,
anxious to hear of new countries,
where homes may be made.
We have now in this country more
than twenty million people who have
gone out from the shade OF the roof
free of their childhood and found
homes in newer countries. What in
comparison with this migratory
stream were the great armies Of Ma
poleon or Grant? Many OF the states
of the union have given aboutas many
OF their sons to this vast developing
and civilizing army as they have re-
tanned at home. Vermont and New
Hampshire have contributed each
100000 Maine and Connecticut 5OO,-
GOO each; Massachusetts,, Kentucky,
Tennessee, Missouri, Georgia, Illinois
and Indiana, three quarters OF mil
lion each, and the great states OF New
York, Virginia, Pennsylvania and
Ohio more than u million each.
The result of the labors OF these vast
developing forces have been marvellous.
Many of the old men OF the Pacific
coast remember when the whole OF the
Mississippi valley and the great lake
basin, was the hunting ground of the
Indians, and when the "national road'
and the line Of white-covered wagons
that moved over it were new things.
Now that area has twenty million peo-
pie.
The present generation has seen
still greater achievements. 1t has seen
the human tide burst over the "Father
of Waters" spread over the trans-Mis-
souri, country, to the foot OF the great
continental divide, and then pour
through the passes into the interior ba-
sins, and on to the Pacific slope, stop
ping only when it met the ocean tides.
Great states, empires in area, have re-
suited from this movement. Wiscon-
sin, Minnesota, Iowa, Kansas: Missouri,
and Texas have passed many OF their
older and competing sisters in the race
for wealth, population and trade. In
twenty years these states have each
gained more than million people.
Other states and territories have done
equally ms well, in the time they have
been at work.
All this great and unequalled pros
perity has resulted from letting their
lights so shine that the home seeker
could sec what advantages they Of
fercd. You have only to do the same
to reap u like harvest. Washington
territory with its rich soil and finest
grain fields on earth with its salubri-
ous climate its lakes, rivers, creeks,
coast line with its bays and harbors; its
great forest belts that darken its hill
and mountain sides, and its vast min
eral deposits that underlic its valleys
and rib and seam its mountain ranges,
are facts well known to your people.
What is necessary is to publish these
facts in the east thoroughly, carefully
and truthfully. The results that would
then follow to YOU would he beyond
computation.
The great wants, you feel IN COM
mon with other new countries, are
more people and more capital. You
need more strong arms and stout
hearts to level your great forests and
prepare their products for the markets
of the world; to open the inexhaust-
iblc storehOusc OF wealth contained in
your valleys and hillsides; to turn up
your rich soils and make them produc-
tive; to build more mills, factories and
forges, for the conversion Oi your raw
material To the uses of civilization to
establish more ship yards, at which
ships Of wood and steel shall be built,
to carry your products to the shores OF
every sea whitencd by the sails of COM
mcrcc.
You need more OF the vast capital of
this county, now locked in the vaults
OF the great cities for want OF profit
able fields of investment, to assist la
hor to do all this and t. put in mo
ton thousand other tirelcss wheels
of production.
ASHLEY BANCROFT,
OF History of Wash Ter